Matt Wilkins
@mw
Why speaking in Spanish is the only way to truly learn Was talking with a friend at the gym today (he works out at the classes) He’s from Venezuela and just started English classes at local community college He talks English and I talk Spanish and we correct each other Anyways I was trying to tell him that I was going to train shoulders during my workout, but I didn’t know how to say shoulder I knew it was something with an H, so threw out “horno” which is oven and definitely not shoulders lmao He laughs and says no that’s an oven Then he was like you give up? Yea ok go ahead tell me “Hombro” DAMNIT! I was close!! We laughed and moved on And so while I just learned how to say shoulders, because of this interaction I will never forget it
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Alberto Ornaghi
@alor
I like a lot this kind of interaction where one speak in one language and the other in a different one.
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Matt Wilkins
@mw
It’s really helpful because speaking is so much harder than listening so you really have to be engaged And if both are practicing their non-dominant language than either of us can switch to correct or clear mix ups Highly recommend two people learning opposite languages do this
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